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Christopher Buckley's "Boomsday"
April 21, 2007 | Carol Devine-Molin

Posted on 04/21/2007 11:29:16 AM PDT by GOPBlonde

According to one review of Christopher Buckley's new satirical work "Boomsday": "With Boomsday looming as 77 million baby boomers get ready to retire and crash Social Security, Cassandra Devine, a sarcastic spin doctor by day and a ferocious blogger by night, calls for a revolution. Why should the under-35 crowd pay higher taxes to support the "Ungreatest Generation?" What have boomers done for anyone?"

Cassandra proffers a modest little proposal of government incentives for Babyboomer senior citizens - portrayed as a dastardly generation if there ever was one - to off themselves, thereby saving her generation some of the prohibitive costs of funding Social Security, Medicare, etc. Killing off Babyboomers is essentially the solution to her generation's plight.

Just wondering if Buckley wasn't subconsciously influenced by some of the past writings of Carol Devine-Molin. For instance:

"Dems Gearing Up for Attacks: Vilification of Drug Companies" by Carol Devine-Molin

"However, if we are irresponsible enough to add another entitlement, in other words universal drug benefits as proposed by the Democrats, it will undoubtedly break the system as the Baby Boomers continue to retire. The Generation X group, or Baby Busters, significantly resent us Baby Boomers to begin with, since, according to them, we are sitting in their jobs and have greatly usurped the available financial and environmental resources. Have you spoken with anyone in that generation recently? Quite frankly, the Baby Busters hope we retire and die soon, so that we can pass on whatever is left to them. Do you really believe that the smaller pool of Baby Busters is going to happily pay the prohibitive costs of subsidizing our large group? Euthanasia of the elderly will become the equivalent of a sacrament, just as abortion is among the liberals today, with Baby Busters mercilessly knocking us off."

"THOUGHTS ON THE GENERATIONAL CULTURES BABY BOOMERS, BABY BUSTERS, AND THE MILLENNIALS"

"It’s no wonder that the Baby Buster generation, also known as the Generation X group born between 1964 and 1981, have become incredibly cynical and disillusioned with politics, government, and life in general, as a direct consequence of the sins and dysfunction of their parents. The Baby Boomers have been a corrupt generation, and unfortunately they have corrupted their progeny, the Baby Busters as well. Generally speaking, (although clearly this does not hold true for all young people), the Generation X crowd exhibits quite a bit of anger, distrust and alienation, lacking standards and a sense of civic responsibility. The current pop-icon of the Baby Busters, white Rap-artist Eminem, reflects this culture of nihilism and deep-seated antipathy. I speak with Baby Busters from all walks of life, including relatives, and I believe that there is a pervasive resentment against the Baby Boomers in particular. In fact, they seem to hope that we, the Baby Boomers, would retire or die soon, to open up job opportunities for them and pass on whatever wealth is left. I would characterize the Generation X crowd as being almost mercenary in their sensibilities. And, as I have said before, the large number of Baby Boomers should assiduously plan for their own retirement and benefits, not depending on government largesse and entitlements (Social Security, Pharmaceutical Plan, etc.), which would inevitably be funded by a highly taxed, smaller pool of Baby Busters. This is a dangerous scenario in the making. The begrudging Baby Busters would mercilessly knock us off, viewing euthanasia of the elderly Baby Boomer population as a secular "sacrament"."


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Just wondering...
1 posted on 04/21/2007 11:29:17 AM PDT by GOPBlonde
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To: GOPBlonde

Born in 1967. Not a big fan of the hippie generation. Most admiration to those of you who do not fit the stereotype.


2 posted on 04/21/2007 11:34:17 AM PDT by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: GOPBlonde

Sounds awsome, when does it come out?


3 posted on 04/21/2007 11:36:19 AM PDT by ChiTownBearFan ("To see the world is to love America all the more"-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: aliquando

I hate being lumped in that group. I was born in 1960 and don’t consider myself a “baby boomer”. After all, most of the damage that was done in the sixties and early seventies happened before I was in high school...


4 posted on 04/21/2007 11:37:40 AM PDT by Philistone (Your existence as a non-believer offends the Prophet(MPBUH).)
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To: ChiTownBearFan

Hi ChiTownBearFan: I think it’s out already.


5 posted on 04/21/2007 11:38:26 AM PDT by GOPBlonde
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To: GOPBlonde

Robbing Peter to pay Paul, but then Peter gets wise. So the both of them decide to rob baby Phil by sticking him with a baloon payment on due Federal Debt. Let him worry about it.


6 posted on 04/21/2007 11:38:38 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: GOPBlonde

Me: born 1970. I cannot stand what the boomers have done to entertainment, patriotism, family values, church worship, education, etc...

But will people have guts to stand up to their own parents???


7 posted on 04/21/2007 11:39:20 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: GOPBlonde
Here’s a flash: Most baby boomers I know, including me, aren’t planning to retire. We may be self-centered and there may be too many of us, but we’ve never been afraid to work. (Let the fireworks begin!;<)
8 posted on 04/21/2007 11:39:26 AM PDT by Jagman (I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
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To: GOPBlonde

I’m reminded to get this on my library list. Chris Buckley is a hoot.


9 posted on 04/21/2007 11:42:28 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil.")
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To: Jagman

Don’t plan to retire? That’s because you are shallow, have no life and need to pay off the $1,000,000 mortgages on your McMansions.


10 posted on 04/21/2007 11:44:03 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: GOPBlonde

Why do I get the feeling the baby boomers in power are counting on illegal immigrants to fill the tax revenue gap the lower number of baby busters can not make up?


11 posted on 04/21/2007 11:44:55 AM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: GOPBlonde

Awsome, Im definitly asking for this for graduation


12 posted on 04/21/2007 11:45:18 AM PDT by ChiTownBearFan ("To see the world is to love America all the more"-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jagman

You got that right, Jagman - I was born in 57; I will die at the workbench!


13 posted on 04/21/2007 11:46:52 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: GOPBlonde

Bill & Hillary Clinton are the quintessential Baby Boomer, they and their type; and I regret to have to say that a lot of Gen. X’ers are of the same liberal hogwash ilk. However, there are those of us Boomers who have worked, not demonstrated, not become decadent liberals, and paid into the Social Security sytem that helped upkeep OUR parents for a very long time. A lot of us don’t ever expect, nor even really want, to retire. We have forged ahead creating our own jobs and niches, have been at the forefront of the “work from the office at home crowd” - on the cutting edge of it; and, frankly, most of the Gen. X’ers could not step in and do our particular indidividualized, specialized jobs formulated over a period of the last thirty or so years. So, we’ll live as long as God allows,thank you very much, make our own individual living without much help from Social Security or the Gen. X’ers, God willing, and the Gen. X’ers who think we need to die and get out of their way can just quit over-stereotyping.


14 posted on 04/21/2007 11:47:29 AM PDT by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God . . .)
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To: GOPBlonde

SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE! PEEEOPPLLEE!!


15 posted on 04/21/2007 11:51:16 AM PDT by Melinator (someone had to say it...)
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To: aliquando

Born in 1970 to pre-Baby Boom parents. No one in my family can stand the hippies. But not all the Baby Boomers were irresponsible hippies, just most of them.


16 posted on 04/21/2007 11:51:19 AM PDT by Terpin (Missing: One very clever and insightful tagline. Reward for safe return!)
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To: dinoparty

Oh, and you’ve found a better way? You don’t know me. I do have a life, which I enjoy, and working hard at something I love is a big part of that enjoyment. I own my own business, so I don’t see how I’m blocking any busters who want to climb the corporate ladder, and I don’t own a McMansion. Sheesh!


17 posted on 04/21/2007 11:52:24 AM PDT by Jagman (I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
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To: aliquando

Born in 1961, I consider myself to be a member of the Blank Generation.

Too young to enjoy hippie free love - but old enough to be threatened by AIDS;
Drinking age changed from 18 to 21, when I was 17;
Too young to go see the Beatles, Hendrix or Duane Allman - but old enough to have all the Disco and Bee Gees you could want (Not);
To young for the fresh experience of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll - but old enough to see that kills wonderful artists and people in that lifestyle;
Too young to buy a new pony car like a ‘67 GTO, ‘69 Camaro or the kind of Mustang Carol Shelby worked on - But old enough to buy a Mustang II or any other Detroit crap choked with emissions modifications mandated by Washington regulations;
Too young to know what a good economy was - but old enough to know national wage and price controls and stagflation;
Too young to really understand what the big deal was with Richard Nixon - but old enough to know why Jimmuh wore a sweater;
Too young to know really cheap gas - but old enough to sit in gas rationing lines;
We created Punk Rock;
Too young to own real property and participate in the 1980’ real estate boom;
Too young to have enough wealth to really benefit from the 5,000 Nasdaq - but old enough to have lost a bundle by the time it hit 1400;

So yes, I am a member of the Blank Generation - and I am just waiting for the next time those no good, liberal, politically correct, big government Baby Boomer bastards to try and screw me.


18 posted on 04/21/2007 12:01:20 PM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: Philistone; bedolido

See post 18


19 posted on 04/21/2007 12:03:26 PM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: Jagman

So don’t retire. Work until you are 83 years old, and you have enough 401(k) funds rolled up so you can go on ocean cruises and climb mountains evry spare moment you have. Nobody expects you to be eating dog food (not that it is any longer a safe source of nutrition). But workaholic ethic aside, just what ARE you going to do? Venture capital funding, with its gamesmanship aspect, would be another possibility, though there is the risk of seriously deflating all your accumulated assets. Adopting some younger person, either as a mentor or as a project of improving somebody’s life, also is a meaningful course in the remaining decades of your life. A LOT of baby boomers will reach the century mark, and they could be an important link for the generations that follow.

Nobody can seriously expect to be living off their Social Security check by then. If you don’t have it put away for your own future, expect to be a charity case all the rest of your life.


20 posted on 04/21/2007 12:06:36 PM PDT by alloysteel (For those who cannot turn back time, there is always the option of re-writing history.)
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